Discouraged? Seems like it would be downright difficult to me, those bathrooms aren't that big.

I'm sure there's a $40 "Pet Handling Fee" and a $25 "Allergen Prevention Fee" that they'll charge. Heck, let's even tack on a checked bag fee just for fun.

Way less trouble than flying with children.

Mr. Vicarious: Way less trouble than flying with children.

Don't remind me. I'm flying from Detroit to France in less than 3 months and I am praying to God that I do not end up next to some family with extremely annoying, whining, kicking children for the entire over 9000 hours I'm on that flight.

What is this yiffing? If it's a furry thing, please disregard my question.

TheGreatZarquon: Discouraged? Seems like it would be downright difficult to me, those bathrooms aren't that big.

And if you're in the suits, there's even less room.

/yiff

vsavatar: Mr. Vicarious: Way less trouble than flying with children.

Don't remind me. I'm flying from Detroit to France in less than 3 months and I am praying to God that I do not end up next to some family with extremely annoying, whining, kicking children for the entire over 9000 hours I'm on that flight.

I recommend sedative darts, just in case.

Ohhhh, you mean animals, subby. You worried me for a second there.

/we dodged that bullet!
//I mean, if we let furries on planes we'd have to let /b/tards and everything else on, wouldn't we?
///yikes

vsavatar: Mr. Vicarious: Way less trouble than flying with children.

Don't remind me. I'm flying from Detroit to France in less than 3 months and I am praying to God that I do not end up next to some family with extremely annoying, whining, kicking children for the entire over 9000 hours I'm on that flight.

Alright, here's my issue.

There's usually only one problem kid per flight, if that.

But Americans love dogs, LOVE dogs. I'd say more people have dogs - easily - than have kids.

So what if we regularly get two or more dogs on a flight? Anyone here ever seen two dogs interact for the first time?

/ Cat person
// But I'd never take my cat on an airplane. Some farker would get their eyes scratched out.

Elektrohed: But I'd never take my cat on an airplane. Some farker would get their eyes scratched out.

Cats have to be in carriers, not on leashes. If you're traveling by plane or car, your vet will give you kitty tranquilizers. These usually work great, unless they wear off halfway through the flight. BTDT when moving. Felt terrible for the people around me since my cat's half-Siamese and meows a lot.

id demand a refund if i saw two care bears getting it on on my flight

My dog still can't get on :(

Sadly people run in fear and panic when they see a 100lb rottweiler. I Can only imagine what they would do if one were on a plane.

Ewe.

DrForrester: What is this yiffing? If it's a furry thing, please disregard my question.


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I'm traveling later this month with my cat who is very talkative- not necessarily upset, but more like a siamese cat. I've scheduled a vet appointment a few days prior to his flight, but I still have a few questions.
Are tranquilizers safe?
Is their litter in the airline carrier (most airlines have their own carrier)?
How cool are others on the plane about pets? Do you get dirty looks from the flight attendants?

Mr. Vicarious: Way less trouble than flying with children.

After having kids (none of whom I've taken on a plane, BTW) I've developed the ability to tune out screaming/crying children. They don't bother me 1/100th as much as salesman-types who WON'T. SHUT. THE. fark. UP.

Especially when there's a pretty woman half their age near them that they're trying to impress. There's invariably a couple of these on every flight I take. Makes it impossible to fall asleep...

LordPomposity: DrForrester: What is this yiffing? If it's a furry thing, please disregard my question.


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Which part of "please disregard my question" didn't you understand? :/

I was at the damned WalMart the other day and I saw about 800 lbs amongst 3 women, dressed as furries, walking around shopping.

I think it was the first time I've thought about lighting someone on fire.

archeochick: I'm traveling later this month with my cat. Are tranquilizers safe?

Yes. They're essential if you've got a meowy cat.

Is their litter in the airline carrier (most airlines have their own carrier)?

Not IIRC.

How cool are others on the plane about pets? Do you get dirty looks from the flight attendants?

Depends on how much noise the pet makes. The flight attendants have seen it all and probably find pets less annoying than small children, since pets are in carriers. I'd be more worried about the people near you.

Ever sit on an 8-hour flight with the person next to you's cat under their seat, meowing the whole time? Awesome.

This fad won't last long. It's just a way to try to get butts in the seats.

archeochick: I'm traveling later this month with my cat who is very talkative- not necessarily upset, but more like a siamese cat. I've scheduled a vet appointment a few days prior to his flight, but I still have a few questions.
Are tranquilizers safe?
Is their litter in the airline carrier (most airlines have their own carrier)?
How cool are others on the plane about pets? Do you get dirty looks from the flight attendants?

I've been lucky enough to fly with a quiet cat, so I don't know about the sedative/tranquilizer.

You shouldn't have to worry about litter that much. Most cats tend not to go in their carriers. Just don't get in the way when your cat gets out of the carrier at the end of the day, as most head straight for the litter box.

From my experiences, most people have gone "ooh, a kitty!" All the flight attendants have been really nice, and I've had one drama queen biatch about the air quality in the plane, but that's it. One way to help with the allergens is to get a bag of kitty wipes (new window) and wipe your cat off really well before you fly, so there's not as much dander.

archeochick: I'm traveling later this month with my cat who is very talkative- not necessarily upset, but more like a siamese cat. I've scheduled a vet appointment a few days prior to his flight, but I still have a few questions.
Are tranquilizers safe?
Is their litter in the airline carrier (most airlines have their own carrier)?
How cool are others on the plane about pets? Do you get dirty looks from the flight attendants?


I took my cat on a flight and while trying to make arrangements found out that different airlines have different rules. The one I wound up on made me buy a certain size carrier that would fit under the seat. Several airlines had different maximum sizes but the local petco was aware of it and had several in stock. I'd suggest no litter as it will just get kicked out and make a mess...easier to just take a roll of paper towels.

Tranq's can cause the animal to go into cardiac arrest so you will have to decide that based on your cats personality and the fact that you WILL have to take said cat out of its carrier to go through security.

Rib: LordPomposity: DrForrester: What is this yiffing? If it's a furry thing, please disregard my question.


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Which part of "please disregard my question" didn't you understand? :/

You clicked it, didn't you?

friedrice2003: Sadly people run in fear and panic when they see a 100lb rottweiler.

Oh, they shouldn't run. Just back away, slowly... ;)

phaseolus: They don't bother me 1/100th as much as salesman-types who WON'T. SHUT. THE. fark. UP.

Or the salesman-type who won't shut the fark up on his cell phone preventing the plane from leaving the gate despite being asked multiple times by the flight crew to shut off the farking phone because FCC regulations won't let them even taxi out with one in use. Just ignoring the air-waitress and holding up that one finger in the 'just a minute' pose for about five minutes until another passenger a few seats back finally yells "Hang up the phone, asshole! Some of us would like to take off."

Sitting next to a fat guy dressed in a wolf costume doesn't seem so bad, really.

i am incredibly allergic to cats. i see a cat on the plane then the airline is giving me a free ticket. period.

trapped in a plane with circulated cat air for however many hours? no thanks.

they might as well allow smoking on planes again with a $25 secondhand smoke fee. since if $25 makes fellow allergic passengers no longer be allergic then certainly $25 will prevent other passengers from disliking cigarette smoke. right? am i following the logic correctly?

airline peanuts were removed due to those with peanut allergies. how is this any different?

oh. the previous poster was referring to a *hypothetical* fee... either way.

peanuts are gone... cats are allowed? ridiculous.

pets belong at home. they should charge at least a full persons fare to ride in the cabin. their owners already are pretending they are people... charge them as so.

My college years taught me several non scholastic things. The best was that the fat chicks that doodle furry shiat and wear cat ears will let you do some down right kinky stuff to them and because their furries you have an automatic bail out clause.

"Look at me. Without the costume, I pretty much can't get yiffed."

can dogs carry balloons of drugs?

x23: i am incredibly allergic to cats. i see a cat on the plane then the airline is giving me a free ticket. period.

Don't you get a free period every month?

Kesherz: Rib: LordPomposity: DrForrester: What is this yiffing? If it's a furry thing, please disregard my question.


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Which part of "please disregard my question" didn't you understand? :/

You clicked it, didn't you?

I swear, you people pick some of the worst examples for those terms.

RulerOfNone: Kesherz: Rib: LordPomposity: DrForrester: What is this yiffing? If it's a furry thing, please disregard my question.


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Which part of "please disregard my question" didn't you understand? :/

You clicked it, didn't you?

I swear, you people pick some of the worst examples for those terms.

No doubt. i mean, Nazis?!? really?!?

ravenlore: No doubt. i mean, Nazis?!? really?!?

Now that that has been mentioned, those who did the smart thing and stayed away from the link will become curious.

You know you want to.

archeochick: I'm traveling later this month with my cat who is very talkative- not necessarily upset, but more like a siamese cat. I've scheduled a vet appointment a few days prior to his flight, but I still have a few questions.
Are tranquilizers safe?
Is their litter in the airline carrier (most airlines have their own carrier)?
How cool are others on the plane about pets? Do you get dirty looks from the flight attendants?

I moved two cats down to Florida from Chicago on Southwest, and it was actually way easier than I thought. I drugged up my kitties (saw the vet a week earlier) and they were out almost the whole time, except for a rougher landing in Orlando. I didn't put litter in the carrier, because it's only a 3 hour flight, I don't know about longer flights...

Other people didn't even know that we had the cats onboard, we used soft-sided carriers to go underneath the seat in front of us, and unless you are looking carefully, you can't really tell the difference between the carriers and other carry on luggage. I did ask the lady we sat behind if she was ok with the kitties, and the flight attendant in back was really nice about everything.

ravenlore: No doubt. i mean, Nazis?!? really?!?

GODWIN'D!

WTF? ::RTFA:: Oh.

I was thinking, 'TSA can't possibly be cool with this, can they?'

In 1960, my family moved from California to Utah.
We flew, but shipped the family dog via train.
The train company lost her. She spent 3 days locked in a boxcar in the summer sun.
She survived, though very dehydrated.

Sir Charles: I was at the damned WalMart the other day and I saw about 800 lbs amongst 3 women, dressed as furries, walking around shopping.

I think it was the first time I've thought about lighting someone on fire.

Were you in Sacramento? They had a furry convention and the local news actually covered it.

When I moved from Alaska to Wyoming(1994), I flew my two cats on Alaska Airlines and they insisted that both cats had to be in the luggage compartment. I believe my little Breetai went insane on that flight.

It seems like being in-cabin would be a better choice for the animal, but airlines will probably be forced to offer non-allergenic flights in the same way that they once considered adults only allowed flights.

Ever sit on an 8-hour flight with the person next to you's cat under their seat, meowing the whole time? Awesome.

Oh - even better was the really prissy guy on the flight with me who had a barking Chinese Crested in a pink sweater. I don't know which was worse, 8 hours of the dog barking, or him incessantly baby-talking his pooch. Americans spend far too much time Anthropomorphizing their pets.

I finally got ticked off just enough to tell him to "shut his F%&king dog up before I did it for him."

nakedmolerat: Sir Charles: I was at the damned WalMart the other day and I saw about 800 lbs amongst 3 women, dressed as furries, walking around shopping.

I think it was the first time I've thought about lighting someone on fire.

Were you in Sacramento? They had a furry convention and the local news actually covered it.

Actually, I believe they were covering the fact that a bunch of Sacramento furs were going to AC. It's not news...

My husband is a flight attendant for an express carrier. He commonly has animals on board anything from assistance animals to personal pets. With the airline he works for, their smaller aircraft do have pressurized and heated cargo areas. Not all of the other express carriers do so it's not always possible to place the animals in the cargo area.

He said he had one passanger who was worried that a blind woman's assistance dog was going to attack him so my husband offered that the guy take a different flight as he was not going to kick off a blind woman and her dog! (For the record, the complainer was a traveling businessman who would not get off the farking phone.)

He told me he's had kittens, cats, ferrets, puppies, dogs, and hamsters on board. Since the aircraft he flies on is a CRJ200 (50 seats) full grown dogs can have a bit of a hard time getting comfy on board but he tries to do the best he can for them. He had one that the previous flight attendant from their connection flight refused to help another woman and her assitance dog so this poor pup was thirsty! My husband cut a cup so that her dog could get a good drink of water and gave her some snacks he had in his personal bag since the dog didn't want pretzels. He told me that everyone is a passenger under his care and their comfort is his responsibility so he makes sure that if someone doesn't want to be seated next to an animal, he'll help move them to a different spot on the plane or offer that they take the next flight.

Most folks he said don't even realize their are any animals on board. He had one lady last week talking loudly when she saw a dog on board about how it was a good thing there were no cats on board since she was so allergic to them. He didn't tell her there were three cats in the cabin on that flight. He said that lady never sneezed or sniffled once.

Lisa P

ravenlore: RulerOfNone: Kesherz: Rib: LordPomposity: DrForrester: What is this yiffing? If it's a furry thing, please disregard my question.


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Which part of "please disregard my question" didn't you understand? :/

You clicked it, didn't you?

I swear, you people pick some of the worst examples for those terms.

No doubt. i mean, Nazis?!? really?!?


Hey, at least he didn't post Doug Winger.